I have been using Edius since version 1 and and am currently on Version 7, and have never had these problems. I have tried to figure out what may have changed on my system, and am dumbfounded at this point. Here is what is happening, and I would greatly appreciate any help getting things back to normal:
So ... here is what I have tried and notes/thoughts on the issue to hopefully save any back-and-forth on diagnoses:
Thank you to anyone taking the time to read this, and I appreciate your input/insight.
- Getting stuttering -- as in not smooth playback -- especially noticeable during a tracking or panning shot. Verified it is definitely not in the recording, used multiple sources, file-types, and frame rates. Project always matches file frame rates. Never had this happen before. It is also happening on my external monitor (via HDMI). Used to get flawless playback (or as close to flawless an overlay can be anyway.)
- Also, now video is going out of sync with audio. Will start out fine, but then the video drifts out of sync … usually within 10 seconds (or less), and gradually gets worse. (The video is lagging the audio.) NEVER had sync issues before. Tested with a project with dialogue that I edited back over the summer, and know it was fine, but now it is not. So it is not the files, etc. It is something with Edius/computer.
- Finally, also notice that even though the buffer is very healthy (in most instances COMPLETELY FULL), the timeline will start filling with the red bars indicating that rendering is needed. This definitely is not right. This is so bizarre.
So ... here is what I have tried and notes/thoughts on the issue to hopefully save any back-and-forth on diagnoses:
- All of this just came out of the clear blue, definitely did NOT have these issues before. And it is happening in Edius 6.08 as well, so it’s not an Edius 7 issue as I originally suspected. And it is NOT because they are both installed, as I have had both installed for a LONG time, with zero issues. I am also noticing the stuttering video overlay problem on 2 of my 3 monitors when playing in various media players. HOWEVER, the monitor that does not exhibit a problem (main monitor with task bar) does still exhibit the problem in Edius.
- This is leading me to believe it is an overlay issue. I don't think a GPU driver update is the culprit, however, because this driver is over a year old. But possible it was corrupted I guess, but display, games, etc. are fine save for the aforementioned playback on secondary monitors -- suspect that MIGHT be an issue with their connection types possibly.
- It’s not overclocking related, turned that off.
- It’s not the HD (RAID-0), nothing with that has changed. Checked drive speed, and it jives with others' reported speeds with RAID-0 caviar black drives in all categories (Seq, 512, 4k, etc.)
- Just to be sure, I copied a project to one of my SSD drives ... made no difference on all fronts/problems.
- No excessive CPU usage (practically nil), disabled a number of background services/processes. Don't believe I can run Edius in safe mode right? Since it uses basic gpu drivers, no?
- This is happening with any codec/format, including HQX (which I mostly use for everything and no problems before.)
- No latency issues detected (average sub-100, occasional spike to ~200 - 300)
- Probably a bunch of other things I can't remember at the moment, but am open to other suggestions, and this post is getting really long. :)
Thank you to anyone taking the time to read this, and I appreciate your input/insight.
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